#European animation

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The End of Stalinism in Bohemia (Konec stalinismu v Čechách) 1991, dir. Jan Švankmajer IMDB

[khagihan2000]

Little Dark Age - Foreign animation These are the foreign animations that deserved love. A response to Oscar. Version: Vimeo GD Youtube (Extended)

Song: Little Dark Age - MGMT Inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dae1m2Z6fQ0&t=7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwlCXVujrWE&t=28s

List of the clips (including overlays): Breadwinner Song of The Sea The Secret of Kells The Phantom Boy The Illusionist Birdboy: The Forgotten Children The Swallow of Kabul Klaus The King of Pigs The Congress Waltz with Bashir The Tragedy of Man April and The Extraordinary World Calamity, A Childhood of martha Jane Cannary The Bear’s Famous Invasion of Sicily. Flee  Johnny Corncob Son of The White Mare Wolfwalker Yellow Submarine Where is Anne Frank? The Swallows of Kabul Have A Nice Day Gandahar The Time Masters Fantastic Planet The Triplet of Belleville The Rabbi’s Cat Nocturna The Cat in Paris Felidae Plague Dogs Watership Down The Prophet Chico and Rita Another Day of Life MFKZ Funan Cinderella The Cat The King and The Mockingbird I Lost My Body Kirikou and The Sorceress  The Crossing  Marona’s Fantastic Tales Long Way North Josep Mia and The Migoo The Summit of Gods Ernest and Celestine Eleanor’s Secret My Life as a Courgette Aya of Yop City One Night In City The Big Bad Fox and the Other Tales Ruben Brandt Collector The Painting Loving Vincent Azur and Asmar The Red Turtles Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles Crulic Allegro Non Troppo The Nose or The Conspiracy of Maverick Wrinkles My Sunny Maad Ethel and Ernest

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[amainoyuki]

Does Globi und der Schattenräuber have an English dub?

To make a long story short, Globi und der Schattenräuber (a.k.a. Globi and the Stolen Shadows) is a 2003 Swiss German animated film intended to modernize the beloved Swiss childrens' character Globi by placing him in an anime-inspired adventure helping a pair of teen musicians opposite a shadow-stealing villain. I've been interested in this movie for years because it sounded bizarre as hell, and earlier this year I was finally able to watch it. I'm super grateful, and I really enjoyed it, but the search is not over.

The film is documented on numerous cartoon and movie databases across the internet, some of which allege it is available with English audio. I know from an interview published prior to the film's release that an official English release was planned, but what I haven't been able to confirm is if that plan came to fruition.

Evidence of this supposed dub is sparse, and much of it could be interpreted as further proof that the dub was planned even if it never ended up happening. For one thing, the songs used in the film are in English, as is the text in the opening and closing credits. Plus, a piece of promotional artwork featuring the English title exists, which may have been used to market the film to potential distributors.

As well, the lip flaps just don't match the audio that well. Rather, it looks as though the animation was made to synch up with English dialogue. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of cartoon-characters-rotely-opening-and-closing-their-mouths in a way that's very common for productions of this scale from this time, but there are also multiple scenes where, when watching with the sound off, you can clearly make out what the English line would have been. Examples include when the Maestro first transforms and asks "What- What happened to me?" or when Globi rolls out the device for creating digital shadows and Benji appears to ask "Woah. What the heck is that?".

But if an English audio track for this film exists, how would it have been released? The original Swiss German version was released theatrically and then on DVD, but I can't find any evidence of the supposed English version of the film receiving this treatment. No TV broadcast that I know of either, nor any other method of distribution. Not to mention, I can't find who the cast and crew would have been on this dub, with one exception.

For whatever reason, IMDB has exactly one voice actor listed for an English version of this film: Alan Marriott in the role of Maestro. It's unclear why the rest of the English cast is missing, why the only character credited isn't even the title character but instead the villain of the piece, or for that matter where they even got this information, but I have reached out to Alan Marriott through his website to confirm the accuracy of this credit, and I'll update this post if he or his team get back to me.

In the meantime, if anybody out there has any information about this hypothetical dub, please let me know. I would love to unearth a watchable copy, or at the very least confirm whether or not the dub is real. Thank you!

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julianradwildlife

[danikatze]

Kept thinking about this line the last few weeks every time it was sunny out lol 🌩️🌨️🌦️🌪️⛄

[Video description: a line art only animation of Gale of Waterdeep. He looks up at the sunny sky and happily says "lovely day, this!" Then he looks suspicious and continues "for now..." After a moment clouds come rolling in, a strong wind starts blowing and heavy rain comes pouring down. At the top is written: "western Europeans in spring:" /End video description.]

[illustratus]

Fox in front of a ruined wall in the forest by Carl Gustav Carus

[artemis-the-starling]

Hi! ⚫️🔸️⚫️

[chalkrub]

been doodling some bri'ish wildlife - love seeing these guys. because they are the classics aren't they?

[onenicebugperday]

European pirate spider, Ero tuberculata, Mimetidae

Photos by macronocturno

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The Horned Princess (Rohatá princezna) 1967, dir. Václav Bedřich IMDB

[faolrougelunedrawings]

I don’t know, I guess Mizu beeing constantly called a dog without any actual dog in the show did some weird stuff in my brain.

And my Okami and GDW teenager self kept yelling « cool ancient japan dogs with fucking swords » et voila.

And I want to do MORE. I’m cringe but I’m free. (Join me in my stupid dogs AU plz)

ÉDIT: the picture quality is very poor, have the dogs by themself too:

[virgocurator]

La Bête de la Mer / Tapisserie de l’Apocalypse (Tapestry of the Apocalypse)

Medieval tapestry of the Ignatius of Antioch (Christian saint and martyr)

[arthistoryanimalia]

For International #VultureAwarenessDay:

Bernard Willem Wierink (Dutch, 1856-1939)

Gieren (Vultures), 1919

platecut print, 40.2 h × 21.5 cm w

Rijksmuseum RP-P-1924-380

[amainoyuki]

Concept art and storyboards for Globi and the Stolen Shadows from the Fama Film website